P4THWAY LIMITED

Inspection report for supported accommodation provider: P4THWAY LIMITED 1 P4THWAY LIMITED Registered provider: P4thway Limited

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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provider

This supported accommodation service is owned and managed by a private provider. The service can accommodate up to 8 children and young people in 2 shared or group living homes that are limited to accommodating looked-after children and care leavers.

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provider

At the time of this inspection, this service was providing supported accommodation for 3 children.

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provider

The service manager has been registered with Ofsted since the provider was registered in March 2024.

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Inspection dates:

The inspection was announced on 29 June 2026 and started that day. One inspector was on site on 1 and 2 July 2026.

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Outcome

Consistently strong service delivery leads to typically positive experiences and progress for children. Where improvements are needed, leaders and managers take timely and effective action. The next inspection will be within approximately 3 years.

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Summary of findings

Leaders and managers provide children with an individualised service that meets their needs. There is an experienced, stable team of staff who provide consistent support to children.

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Summary of findings

Children enjoy where they are living and experience a sense of belonging. They receive targeted support to help them to develop independent living skills, which encourages them to have aspirations for their future. Inspection report for supported accommodation provider: P4THWAY LIMITED 2 Children have a voice. They are always consulted about the support they receive. Staff listen to the children and ensure what they say is being amplified in all areas of their lives.

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Summary of findings

The staff ensure that children’s safety is a priority. Staff are trained to identify risks that could affect children. When incidents occur, they act quickly to ensure the safeguarding of children.

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Summary of findings

Leaders and managers are positive role models. Their approach centres around prioritising the needs of children and ensuring staff feel supported. Staff enjoy being part of an organisation that puts children first.

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Overall experiences and progress of children

Children benefit from living in nurturing environments with staff team, whose members know them well. One child said, ‘This is the best place I have ever lived.’ Another child spoke at length about how much they like their home and the staff who support them. Children spend considerable time engaging in meaningful ways with a staff team, whose members clearly enjoy their work with young people.

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Overall experiences and progress of children

Children are supported to develop practical living skills, such as cooking, laundering and budgeting. Staff work with children’s strengths and build on these towards achieving independence and increasing self-esteem. Children actively engage in their support plans, and they benefit from a personalised approach. One social worker commented, ‘[Staff] recognise that the young person is still learning and developing and approach their support with patience and understanding. They provide opportunities for growth, offer consistent support and encourage positive development.’

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Overall experiences and progress of children

Most children are attending some form of education, training or employment. Where children are not engaging, the staff persevere to re-engage with those individual children. There is a dedicated staff member who serves as an in-house employment officer. Their role is to help children build CVs and apply for courses and/or jobs they might be interested in. Staff’s belief in children helps the children to believe in themselves. A social worker said that the support provided to their child ‘is having a positive impact on their mental wellbeing and motivation to do well’.

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Overall experiences and progress of children

Children access and enjoy a range of social and recreational activities. Staff support children to join local gyms and encourage their interests in areas such as music, baking and gardening. Children who are seeking asylum are supported to join organisations that help them build ties within their local community, ensuring they are aware of local resources that can promote their cultural identities.

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How well children are helped and protected

Children say that they are safe. There is a stable staff team, and they provide consistency of support that allows for staff to build strong relationships with Inspection report for supported accommodation provider: P4THWAY LIMITED 3 children. All children have an allocated named worker. However, children know they can approach any staff member, including managers, for support or to raise concerns at any time. Staff regularly tell children, ‘We are your safe space.’ This enhances children’s sense of security.

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How well children are helped and protected

When a safeguarding risk is identified, managers and staff act swiftly to ensure children are safe. The actions they take include engaging in additional training for staff and sharing information with placing agencies, the police and other professionals. When children present with mental health needs, leaders and managers ensure that there is a coordinated integrated approach between staff, social care and therapeutic services to support children with emotional regulation and their mental wellbeing.

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How well children are helped and protected

Leaders and managers work closely with safeguarding partners when allegations are made in order to ensure that appropriate action takes place. Serious incidents and missing-from-care incidents in the service are rare, and when they do occur, managers and staff ensure that children’s safety is paramount. However, since registration, managers have informed Ofsted of some, but not all, significant events, such as police callouts. This hinders the regulator’s oversight of the provider’s actions to safeguard the children.

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How well children are helped and protected

Staff have access to a wide variety of training tailored to meet the needs of the children they support. Leaders and managers ensure that staff receive ongoing training on topics such as CSE, non-violence resistance training, safeguarding and de-escalation skills. When children are identified as having either a physical or mental health need, staff receive specialised training in this area to ensure that they have the knowledge to provide the most appropriate support.

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How well children are helped and protected

The managers approach staff recruitment safely. However, the processes for verification of references and ensuring that overseas checks are always carried out when relevant is inconsistent.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

The nominated individual and registered service manager are the same person. They bring to their role a wealth of skills and experience. They are a dedicated individual who continually strives to provide children with high-quality support to help them gain the individual skills they need to live independently. They are an inspirational leader and manager, and they know the staff and the children well. They have created a positive culture across the service. A member of staff commented that the registered service manager is ‘all about the young people’ and that they ‘stand out as a good leader’.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

Staff are proud to work for this provider and speak highly of the support, compassion and vision of leaders and managers. One staff member commented, ‘Management promotes an open, inclusive culture where staff feel valued, listened to and supported.’ Another staff member commented that ‘the best thing’ about working for the provider is ‘we have become a small family; our biggest reward is Inspection report for supported accommodation provider: P4THWAY LIMITED 4 seeing the young people become more independent and knowing we as a team have contributed to their stability and future’.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

Leaders and managers have a good understanding of the strengths of the service as well as the areas for improvement. There are effective systems to receive regular feedback from children, staff and other professionals, such as social workers. Leaders and managers review of feedback is reflective and ensures that changes are made that will benefit children. However, the required quality of support review has not always been completed in a timely manner.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

The registered service manager receives peer support from a registered manager of a children’s home. However, they would benefit from receiving their own supervision from a suitably skilled and experienced professional.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

External professionals speak highly of the service and highlight many strengths. The leaders and managers prioritise working jointly with professionals and, when possible, family members, which means children receive a coordinated approach to the support they receive. One social worker said that the communication from the service ‘has been excellent’. Inspection report for supported accommodation provider: P4THWAY LIMITED 5

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Statutory requirements

This section sets out the actions that the registered person(s) must take to meet the Care Standards Act 2000, The Supported Accommodation (England) Regulations 2023 and the ‘Guide to the Supported Accommodation Regulations, including Quality Standards’. The registered person(s) must comply within the given timescales.

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must notify the CIECSS and any relevant person without delay if—

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Requirement Due date

a child is involved in or subject to, or is suspected of being involved in or subject to, sexual exploitation or child criminal exploitation;

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an incident requiring police involvement occurs in relation to a child and the registered person considers that incident to be serious;

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there is an allegation of abuse against the supported accommodation undertaking or a person working for it;

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concludes (in which case, the notification must include the outcome of the child protection enquiry);

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there is an incident involving the use of a measure of restraint of a child;

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there is any other incident relating to a child which the registered person considers to be serious. (Regulation 27 (3)(a)(b)(c)(d)(i)(ii)(e)(f)) 1 August 2026

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must maintain a system for monitoring and improving the quality of support provided by the supported accommodation undertaking by completing a review ("a quality of support review") at least once every six months, which must take into account— 1 August 2026 Inspection report for supported accommodation provider: P4THWAY LIMITED 6 the views of children, including any feedback and complaints received;

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feedback from individual children on the impact the supported accommodation has had on the child’s life, especially regarding how well prepared the child felt for transition into supported accommodation and how well prepared the child feels for transition out of supported accommodation;

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feedback from each child’s accommodating authority, staff and any relevant persons;

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Requirement Due date

any relevant research and developments in relation to the way in which the needs of children are best met.

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Requirement Due date

After completing a quality of support review, the registered person must produce a written report setting out the actions the registered person intends to take as a result of that quality of support review.

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must provide a copy of the review report to the CIECSS within 28 days beginning with the day on which the report is completed, and make a copy of it available on request to each child’s accommodating authority. (Regulation 32 (1)(a)(b)(c)(d) (2) (3))

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Recommendations

 The registered person must ensure that systems are in place for the registered service manager to receive supervision of their practice from a suitably skilled and experienced professional, allowing them to reflect on their practice and the needs of the children accommodated in the setting. The registered person should ensure systems in place so that the registered service manager receives supervision of their practice from a suitably skilled and experienced professional, which allows them to reflect on their practice and the needs of the children accommodated in the setting. (‘Guide to the Supported Accommodation Regulations, including Quality Standards’, page 51)  The registered person should ensure that recruitment practice demonstrates that managers have sufficiently explored staff suitability and fitness to work with children and that they have the relevant skills, qualifications and recent experience to meet the needs of children by verifying references and completing

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Recommendations

overseas checks when needed. (‘Guide to the Supported Accommodation Regulations, including Quality Standards’, page 16)

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Information about this inspection

Inspection report for supported accommodation provider: P4THWAY LIMITED 7 Inspectors have looked closely at the experiences and progress of children, using the social care common inspection framework. This inspection was carried out under the Care Standards Act 2000 to assess the effectiveness of the service, how it meets the core functions of the service as set out in legislation, and to consider how well it complies with The Supported Accommodation (England) Regulations 2023. Inspection report for supported accommodation provider: P4THWAY LIMITED 8

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Supported accommodation provider details

Registered provider address: Capital Office, 152–160 City Road, London EC1V 2NX

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Supported accommodation provider details

Nominated individual: Moronfolu Fadojutimi

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Supported accommodation provider details

Registered service manager: Moronfolu Fadojutimi

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Inspector

Julie Cresswell, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for supported accommodation provider: P4THWAY LIMITED 9 to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children’s social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children’s services, and inspects services for looked-after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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